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• In the toad and in the dog, adrenalectomy diminishes but does not suppress the diabetogenic effect of the anterior lobe extract, which can be obtained in adrenalectomized dogs, in which the pancreas has been surgically reduced, and which are kept alive by treatment with desoxycorticosterone and salt or even with sodium chloride alone. Bernardo Houssay - Nobel Lecture
• Haematoma in the abdominal cavity was found as an irregular echo free zone between left hepatic lobe and the transplanted pancreas.
• Approximately 88,000 people are on the national organ transplant waiting list, waiting for kidneys, livers, pancreases, intestines, hearts and lungs.
• Sugar unbalances the endocrine system, which includes the adrenal glands, pancreas and liver, causing the blood-sugar level to fluctuate widely.
• At first the pancreas is directed upward and backward between the two layers of the dorsal mesogastrium, which give to it a complete peritoneal investment, and its surfaces look to the right and left. XI. Splanchnology. 2j. The Pancreas
• The shortage of human donor pancreases for islet cell transplantation has led to a search for alternative sources of islet cells.
• Your pancreas secretes enzymes that aid digestion and hormones that help regulate the metabolism of carbohydrates.
• I asked him about his surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004. Was the problem his pancreas still? Times, Sunday Times
• For most other common solid tumours such as those of lung, oesophagus, stomach, or pancreas, only limited survival gains have been achieved.
• The thickened digestive fluids made by the pancreas are prevented from reaching the small intestine, where they are needed to digest food.